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'Trent? 'The chairman of the meeting. 'Got us ? 'Miss Levering and me. Stonor's incensed face turned almost brick colour as he repeated, 'Miss Lev ! Before he got the name out, the folding doors had opened again, and the butler was saying, 'Mr. Farnborough.
And for reasons which would be too long to tell you here, I said, "Some time or other, icebergs have been floating northward from the Hog's Back over Aldershot and Farnborough, and have been trying to get into the Vale of Thames by the slope at Wellington College station; and they have stranded, and dropped these flints."
There came a day when by no effort of will could she get through her classes, when sheer necessity drove her to do the thing she had dreaded most of all inform the Head that she could not go on with her work. Miss Farnborough was seated in her private room, and listened with grave attention to what the Games mistress had to say.
On the first Saturday of the term Miss Farnborough had invited the new French mistress to tea, and had been all that was friendly and encouraging; but since that time no word had passed between them that was not strictly concerned with the work in hand, and Claire realised that as one out of sixteen mistresses she could not hope for frequent invitations.
'Homeless women? echoed Mr. Freddy. 'Yes; in the most insanitary part of Soho. 'Oh a really. Mr. Freddy stroked his smart little moustache. 'It doesn't sound quite in Miss Levering's line, Farnborough hazarded. 'My dear boy, said his hostess, 'you know as little about what's in a woman's line as most men. 'Oh, I say! Mr. Freddy looked round with a laugh.
"Is that the news I'm to take back to Farnborough, missus?" said Messenger with quiet, rustic irony. "No; I'll write to him."
Freddy leaned against the blue-grey sofa for a moment and half closed her pretty eyes. The next instant she was running gaily across the room to welcome Richard Farnborough and Captain Beeching. 'I always know, said Lord Borrodaile, glancing over the banisters as he and Vida went down 'I always know the kind of party it's going to be when I see certain people. Don't you?
Levi further explained that his object was simply to overhear and counteract every scheme Meadows should form. He added that he never intended to leave Farnborough for long. His intention had been to establish certain relations in that country, buy some land, and return immediately; but the gold discovery had detained him.
Jean turned quite pink with anxiety. She, and all who knew him well, had seen Stonor crush the cocksure and the unwary with an awful effectualness. But Farnborough, with the courage of enthusiasm enthusiasm for himself and his own future went stoutly on. 'There are Liberals and even Unionists among 'em. And they do manage to hold the balance pretty even. I go and hear them, you see!
'If it was as horrible as that for Major Wilkinson to look on at what must it have been for those girls? It was Miss Levering speaking. She seemed to have abandoned the hope of being taken for a stroll, and was leaning forward, chin in hand, looking at the fringe of the teacloth. Richard Farnborough glanced at her as if he resented the note of wondering pity in the low tone.
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